Theory and practice of the movement-cure, or the treatment of lateral curvature of the spine, paralysis, indigestion, constipation, consumption, angular curvatures and other deformities, diseases incident to women, derangements of the nervous system, and other chronic affections by the Swedish system of localized movements / by Charles Fayette Taylor.

  • Taylor, Charles Fayette, 1827-1899.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Theory and practice of the movement-cure, or the treatment of lateral curvature of the spine, paralysis, indigestion, constipation, consumption, angular curvatures and other deformities, diseases incident to women, derangements of the nervous system, and other chronic affections by the Swedish system of localized movements / by Charles Fayette Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    system controls many of the conditions under which this inherent plastic power must operate. Through the influence of the nervous system, there is kept up the most complete inter-relations of part to part, organ to organ, and function to function. The sensitive, motor, and sympathetic nerves have actual fibrillated connections and a mutual dependence, so that it is impossible to influence one without influencing in some measure all the rest. The nervous system is a republic, delegating, it is true, certain duties to each member, but never giving up the dependence of each part upon the whole body politic. Every action of one part engages the attention of all the rest. Dr. Marshall Hall's doctrine of the reflex action of the cerebro-spinal system explains many of the phe- nomena of nutrition, and by the Movement-Cure is made of practical use in medicine. The idea of reflex action, of afferent and efferent nerves, is something more than a mere abstraction, or even than a well- established but simply curious and interesting matter of physiology. It is a matter of precise gunnery—a means of hitting the mark without roundabout or doubt, and of producing in a given part or organ those conditions of nutrition required to promote a right instead of a wrong functional manifestation, What can be more plain ? To act upon it we have only patiently to investigate the laws under which these manifestations of the nervous system take place. It has been long known that the irritation of the sensitive loops of an afferent nerve will produce a